Why Doesn’t Your GPS Give You Good Directions?
GPS has made our lives easier in many ways, from just being able to know exactly where you are on the planet to being able to get directions in seconds to nearly any destination. For everyone who uses it there has probably been a time where you questions the route that was given to you […]
Are People Losing Confidence In The Internet?
How much of your life today is spent on the Internet? Probably quite a lot. Certainly much of your personal life is and there is a good bet that your work involves it in one way or another. With so much of your life spent online there is no avoiding putting your own personal information […]
What Do HTTP Status Codes Mean?
When anyone is searching the Internet there is one thing that they do not want to see and that is an HTTP status code. For most people they just simply mean that something is not working the way it should and that the magic of the Internet is broken. Of course these messages mean much […]
Happy 30th To The World Wide Web!
Did you know that tomorrow the Internet turns 30? It does. 30 years ago in 1989 a 34 year old British computer scientist working at CERN in Switzerland proposed a system called hyperlinks to allow the sharing of information via computer. Tim Berners-Lee certainly did not imagine what this innovation would become and how it […]
The Court of the Internet
Who is the authority on the Internet? No we don’t mean Tim Berners-Lee or Vint Cerf or anyone like that. Who has the ability to determine punishment for the people who do not abide by the rules? For some Internet novices the mere thought of that can lead to hilarious results as evidenced by this […]
Ransomeware targeting robots
If you have never been hit with a ransomware attack consider yourself lucky. These attacks cost the victim a great deal of time, money and frustration as they deal with it and in some cases there is no resolution. This has hit many people’s computers and has also spread to people’s phones and now it […]
Papua New Guinea to ban Facebook for a month?
The reaction to the recent data scandals that have embroiled Facebook have varied. Some people have continued on like normal, some have curbed their usage while others have taken more drastic steps like completely stopping using the platform. This has been, for the most part, up to the individual but that may not be an […]
Why are they called trolls?
There are a handful of constants in the Internet when it comes to a message board or comments section. There will inevitably be the person who made $100,000 working from home last year that pops in to promote their pyramid scam, there will be the people who have no idea what is going on but […]
What were the hot Internet topics from 20 years ago?
For many who are now in their thirties and older they discovered the Internet in the mid-1990s. Whether it was from a small ISP or though one of the millions of AOL disks that were distributed through the United States and around the world we became connected to the information superhighway. For some that was […]
Why do you need a personal website?
The Internet has changed the way that people search for jobs. Gone (or nearly so) are the days of searching the newspaper for openings or calling on various local businesses to check for openings. Now this can all be done with the click of a mouse. That itself is not a secret but for a […]
Mosaic: The world’s first web browser
We cannot live without a web browser today. Edge, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and hundreds of others are available to make surfing the world wide web easier. Like every technological innovation someone had to take a chance and be the first to not only develop something but to also demonstrate that it was a viable […]
The World’s first ISP
We take the Internet and the companies that provide it (ISPs) for granted today. It almost seems like accessing the Information Superhighway is a right, “endowed by our Creator” and ranking among basic human rights like “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” There was a time when someone had to take a chance and […]